Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would compliment John D. Rockefeller Jr. on his wealth. Thousands have blundered into complimenting the Phillipses on their charm. The important thing Mr. Phillips about Diplomat Phillips is that, regardless of personality, he is a good diplomat. It is widely conceded that there is no better equipped diplomat in the U. S. service. For 23 years he has been equipping himself. He began as private secretary to Ambassador Choate at the Court of St. James's. He served in Peking. He accepted demotion in order to return to Washington, to work "with the office boys of the State Department...
...denied advocating thugging of Senator Heflin. Said he: "I facetiously remarked that apparently the only thing to do with a fellow like that is to have a couple of men take him out some where and roll him in the mud. He must be made to look ridiculous. The Senator, however, hasn't sense enough to realize that the suggestion was a facetious...
...Charles Linza McNary who did not stay down on the Oregon farm where he was born. Leland Stanford Jr. University (Calif.) and private tutors educated him. A lawyer and gentleman, he became Dean of an Oregon law school, whence he was elevated to the bench. In Washington, the characteristic thing about him is not that he is Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee but that he is a member of the Committee on Committees. The latter requires political finesse, conversation (not oratory), the dispassionate manipulation of other men's passions. And Senator McNary plays faces better than figures...
Last week this lady, now resident at her villa "Lillie" in Monte Carlo, said: "In the old days a thing like this would have been settled by a horse whipping. . . . It is hard to have blame fastened upon me for things I never did, and to have become the weapon for an attack upon the memory of Mr. Gladstone, for whom I have always had the greatest respect. . . . I do not suppose I met him half a dozen times in my life . . . but he always left me with the feeling that he was essentially a good man. . . . I remember that...
...Nothing is further from our intentions than to be drawn into an adventurous, aggressive or ambitious Byzantine policy in China. All we want to do in China is trade with China. We regard the 400,000,000 of Chinese as potential friends and customers. Almost the last thing you usually do with a potential customer is to shoot him. The last thing to wish is that the potential customer should shoot...